Exploring the Infinite
via The Consumerist David is Consumerist reader who works at Walmart. He was recently fired for posting a joke that mentioned Walmart on his MySpace. The comment: The exact quote said “Drop a bomb on all the Walmarts, trailer parks, ghettos, monster truck shows, and retarded fake “pro wrestling” events, and the average I.Q. score would probably double.” This was
http://www.djpauledge.com/wewillnotbesilenced/index_secondmovie.html?tt=1.1 At first I thought it was going to be a religious rant, but toward the end, I felt like the overall message was one that could apply to anyone, no matter what their religious faith might be. I think the speaker might have forgotten that the God of the Bible is a God who actively encouraged war, not peace.
ABC News: College Kids Using Hallucinogenic Drug Bought Right off the Store It's an article talking about salvia, a plant that originates from Mexico. It is a hallucinogenic that has somehow “fallen through the legislative cracks and into the hands of college kids”… it's also a popular landscaping and gardening plant. So now everyone's up in arms about how this
This guy made his own FSM Holiday lights… he says “I tried to be as noodetomically correct as possible”
I know I'm a bit late in posting this but it's just too juicy… Metro.co.uk reports, “A student has been suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate. But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy – because the student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religion.
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http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/2277 From the page: “The concept of keeping your thoughts private could be profoundly altered in the future” What horrible monsters we humans could become if we never allowed each other to make mistakes.
http://www.minorml.org/flint_compassionate_care_coaliti.htm All you Flint voters get out there and vote tomorrow.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,72775-0.html Snyder: That’s the crazy part. We learned how to create a pristine image and now we are working to fuck it up again. Part of the technology now is used to make it look like you didn’t use the technology.
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http://www.digital-karma.org/culture/literature/ten-most-harmful-books-of-the-19th-and-20th-centuries The Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
http://kradeleet.com/?p=77 From the page: “Rudy (Rucker) is starting to think all this is more than just a nifty coincidence, that mathematics has just happened to stumble on a method of creating patterns that look just like so many natural patterns. In his latest post, he makes the suggestion that “God” could be a deterministic non-reversible class four paratime metaphysical cellular
via Space.com This three-dimensional map offers a first look at the web-like large-scale distribution of dark matter, an invisible form of matter that accounts for most of the universe’s mass. The map reveals a loose network of dark matter filaments, gradually collapsing under gravity and growing clumpier over time. Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Massey (Caltech)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2701723&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 From the page: “Some of anthropology’s greatest scientific treasures rest in the National Museums of Kenya. But they may soon become all but invisible if Christian fundamentalists get their way.”